From AFP: A blast outside a subway station in central Moscow that killed eight people was caused by a female suicide bomber, Russian news agency Interfax quoted the federal security service FSB as saying. Earlier the interior ministry had said several theories were being considered, among them a suicide bomber but also an explosion in […]
Archives for August 2004
Jihadists deface books in Paris library with anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial
From UPI, : “The worrying tide of anti-Semitism and incitation to racial hatred one is noticing in French society is also permeating within the walls of the library,” said Gerard Grunberg, director of the Bibliotheque Publique d’Information at the Pompidou Center in Paris. “Books were covered with anti-Semitic inscriptions and addresses of Web sites denying […]
First Arab, Islamic Congress to be held in Europe
In Berlin in October. Here is a link to a lengthy advertisement for the thing. (Thanks to Ali Dashti and Andy.) Our meeting in Berlin around these goals and fixed principles will create a new challenge to make the correction of way and to stop the retrogression of our nation and people and to create […]
CAIR ducks Robert Spencer
Daniel Pipes and I were scheduled to tape a TV program tomorrow with Nihad Awad and Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). But at the last minute, Awad and Ayloush backed out, leaving the producers scrambling for replacements. I am not surprised; over a year ago Arsalan Iftikhar of CAIR refused […]
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Tariq Ramadan: What does America have to fear from me? Daniel Pipes: Here’s what
Tariq Ramadan, the revocation of his visa barring his way to a professorship at Notre Dame, throws down the gauntlet to his critics in the International Herald Tribune: I remain in Switzerland, hoping this mistake will be rectified and reflecting on how I am constantly being told the “truth” about who I am: “You are […]
Ohio: Judge won’t overturn imam’s conviction
As jihadists dominate the news from Russia, Iraq, and Israel, here in the United States one of their key allies, and a former prominent “moderate Muslim,” has suffered a setback. From AP: CLEVELAND – A federal judge has rejected a defense request to overturn the conviction of an Islamic cleric on charges of concealing ties […]
Car Blast Reported Near Moscow Subway
“MOSCOW – An explosion in a car near a Moscow subway station Tuesday shattered doors and windows in the station vestibule, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, according to Russian news agencies.”
Two Bus Bombs in Southern Israel Kill 15
Said the great philosopher Averroes: “Most scholars agree that fortresses may be assailed with mangonels, no matter whether there are women and children within them or not. This is based on the fact that the Prophet used mangonels against the population of al-Ta’if.” And according to the renowned Sufi Al-Ghazali: “One must go on jihad […]
Iraq Militants Kill 12 Nepali Hostages
For, among other things, being Buddhists. From Reuters, with thanks to many who sent this to me: BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – A militant Iraqi group said it had killed 12 Nepali hostages and showed pictures of one being beheaded and others being gunned down in the worst violence against captives since a wave of kidnappings […]